. >> the university of alabama campus of tuscaloosa is under tight security guard of state police as george wallace appeals for calm and prepares to confront a deputy u.s. attorney. the federal officers are armed with a proclamation from president kennedy urging the governor to end his efforts to prevent two negro students from registering at the university. the governor is adamant. he made a campaign promise to stand in the doorway himself to prevent the integration of the last all white state university. >> so in this photograph you see nicholas katzenbalk, the assistant attorney general for the united states and the kennedy representative sent to birmingham to make the federal government's argument for integration at the university. and then, standing in the door, foster auditorium, as promised, you see governor wallace who stands here and makes a statement and states he's not going to leave and he's going to physically bar the admission of james hood and vivian malone, the two african-american students there to integrate the university of alabama. at the event, nicholas katzenbal

interesting to note the contrast between what happens on june 11th, when george wallace arrives in tuscaloosa to make his stand in the schoolhouse door, and what happened just two days later on june 13th, 1963, when the university of alabama's huntsville campus is desegregated with very little fanfare and very little fuss. so what you see here is james mclathery, a mathematics student, graduate student, and employee at nasa who is walking into this open door to successfully desegregate the university of alabama at huntsville. with very little media attention, very little police presence, and, you know, it is a very stark contrast between what happened just a few days before in tuscaloosa. once the school has successfully desegregated, he sort of moves on into the national political sphere. he's using it as a political launching point. >> i am pleased to announce this morning that more than 100,000 californians have registered as members of the american independent party, in order to give us assistance in gaining a place on the california ballot in next year's general election. >> george walla

and the pilot sent a distress call and the plane crashed into trees while trying to land at tuscaloosa regional airport. >>> this morning a man is in critical condition after a car hit him while he was riding his bike it happened at martin luther king jr. boulevard and north himes avenue just after 6:00 p.m. yesterday. closing part of mlk for hours. police still aren't sharing that victim's name. we'll let you know what police find out once they finishish their investigation. >>> the family of a pinellas county firefighter hopes to carry on his personal commitment to save lives. pete huffman was in the fire department for 35 years. with cancer. his doctors believe the illness was linked to decades of exposure to toxic chemicals in the line of duty. huffman's family learned the financial hardships of his diagnosis especially since florida is one of just a few states without a firefighter cancer presumption law to help cover his treatments. >> my brother was a hero. the firefighters are heroes everyday. they lay their lives on the line to protect life and property and they serve the comm

and it crashed into some trees just short of the runway at the tuscaloosa regional airport. officials say the victims include three married couples. they say the couples were on their way back from a dental convention in florida. (mayor bobby herndon, northport, al): "it was an aircraft landing in tuscaloosa regional airport and it sent out a distressed signal. tuscalofi their airport fire trucks on standby, hoping that the plane was going to land, but it fell short, it fell in this park that is run by the park and recreation of tuscaloosa county. there are fatalities, we are waiting for the faa to get here to take charge of the scene. the ntsb out of atlanta should be here in three or four hours. there will be people here around the clock piecing together what happened." kissimmee, florida, to oxford, mississippi. still ahead in your entertainment news..johnny depp's divorce drama continues. plus--- a sneak peek of brad pitt's new movie. 3 and... this runner isn't letting his age stop him from getting the gold ... in the senior olympics competition. feingold: i'm russ feing

was calling in federal troops most of your old enough to remember george wallace in tuscaloosa and bobby kennedy learned from his mistakes in birmingham and montgomery and having to call in troops early of the segregationist. with this there is nobody in america not just civil-rights but bobby kennedy in his life talking about j. edgar her hoover he was a tutor in the body can be despise roue and because mccarthy was the of boss. he detected jimmy hoffa that bodies out was corrupt. those people you could argue that the fourth person on his hate list was a great tragedy and that was lbj. one was a harvard it to -- harvard-educated rich and in massachusetts that grew up or and resented anybody who was harvard-educated and with that coalition they could've gotten more extraordinarily things done. and now across purposes is a huge tragedy. tuesday end vietnam but bobby would track things and with an anti-war speech it would seem like every day he increase the of bombing. >> one of the things the. >> tell them how many times you have read the book ; the layperson america there read the book t

near the tuscaloosa regional the three couples onboard were on their way back from a dental convention in florida. a tragic story out of texas.... police a mother confessed to killing her two young children... and then hiding their bodies. investigators say the woman asked her friend for help moving yesterday... and when he questioned her about where her daughters were.. she told him she had killed them. he drove her to a police station, where officers say she admitted she drowned the 5 and 7 year old. their bodies were found under would she do this why would anyone do this. it's just senseless. it's just a phone call awayi would have came and got these kids." the mother is now charged with capital murder. police say she has no history of mental illness. a woman had to cut her vacation short... after finding out someone moved into her home. crystal taylor says her neighbors called and alerted her--- while she and her fiance were on vacation in cabo. taylor called police. but the people at taylor's house provided police with a lease. and it turns out they were victims of a craig's list

he intervened and determined to upstage the drama in tuscaloosa. yet even bigger actors waiting in the wings and ultimately stole the show. the origins of birmingham's modern civil rights movement dates to 1956 when the reverend shuttlesworth organized the christian movement the human rights in response to the state's running the national association for the advancement of colored people out of alabama over the montgomery bus boycott and the attempt to desegregate the university. his organization attracted a small but loyal group of deeply religious activists who firmly believed that god would help them end segregation. their fanaticism allowed them to wait down the attacks by white vigilantes. when the montgomery boycott case came about, the alabama christian movement demanded an end to practice on birmingham buses. in response, ku klux klansmen bombed a baptist church, the dynamite nearly killing the pastor and civil rights leader. shuttlesworth's survival became a sign of divine intervention. during the school desegregation crisis in little rock

it crashed right across from tuscaloosa regional airport. the faa says the plane sent a distress signal four minutes before was posted land. >>> information on the crash that shut down a portion of i- 275. a driver who committed suicide led to a multi-car collision. the 57-year-old leonard de la garza shot himself car to swerve and hit two other cars. no one else was injured. >>> a plea to find out how a dog got left on a busy highway. the dog seems to be okay but troopers are trying to find out how the dog ended up on the median near state route 559. if you have any information, please call the police. we have no mystery this evening, we have a few showers out there right now. a little bit of a sprinkle along st. pete beach holiday. everything else is out in the gulf of mexico. maybe a little bit of rain. we have seen the showers move off from the south. we are looking for about 40% coverage again tomorrow. 70 degrees right now in tampa and st. petersburg. the southeast tomorrow as we reach the low down to 70 degrees. we will warm back up i

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. >>> over in alabama authorities say six people died when their small plane crashed near tuscaloosa the it took off from kissimmee and developed engine problems on the flight to mississippi. the faa said they got a distress signal four minutes before it was supped most accurate forecast. >> good morning. looking pretty good now temperatures in the upper 70s, around 80 degrees in clearwater. we're doing with that mostly clear to partly cloudy skies. temperatures in the upper 70s throughout the tampa bay area and we'll continue to see them climbing. we have to get sunshine out there still. two hours from that. titan doppler radar looks good now but yesterday we had a few storms firing. most of us stayed dry actually but the storms that did develop anywhere from 1 to 2 inches. you can see the storms lifted to the north and west rapidly. we had a strong southeast fetch and that allowed for some of the storms to go strong. our friends in orlando had a couple of severe thunderstorm warnings as well. as we continue to see this pattern continuing the next few days, no big changes so when yo

and crashed near tuscaloosa around 11-30 this morning the f-a-a says the plane sent a distress signal and crashed just short of the runway. the victims on board haven't been identified yet. the ntsb and the local sheriff's office are investigating. tonight....the governor of louisiana says at least 7-thousan rescued from historic flooding in that state. right now....more than 5-thousand residents are staying in red cross shelters as the floodwater continues to submerge large parts of louisiana. and a salvation army shelter has been evacuated. at least 3 people are confirmed dead... one is still missing. cell phone service is weak....making it difficult to reach people. some people have been stuck on roads for hours trying to flee... as they abandon their homes. governor john the storm that brought all the rain has "subsided in its intensity" but the flooding isn't over. american gold medlist ryan lochte says he and three other members of the u-s swim team were robbed in rio. lochte says the thieves posed as police and pulled over a cab he and the other swimmers were riding in. he says

off from kissimmee reportedly had engine troubles and crashed into trees while trying to at the tuscaloosa airport. the victims were on their way back from a dental convention. >>> the fight continues to get congress to approve more funding to fight the zika virus here in florida. last week, $80 million was repurposed from ebola to zika virus but researchers say the funds will run out at the end of august. senator marco rubio says more needs to be done. >> have you had conversations about getting back to work? >> we have. i talked to the majority leader the urgency to get the funding done. >> senator marco rubio adds that state and local governments are spending millions in mosquito control. it's money he believes congress should reimburse the governments. >>> a family is counting their blessings after their 3-year- old boy was saved from drowning at a local water park. hillsborough county depp -- the hillsborough county deputy saved the boy's life. he was with his family when he heard someone calling for help. he ran to help pull michael anew immediately started cpr. >> i knew it was cruc

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small plane reportedly had engine trouble when it crashed into some trees trying to approach the tuscaloosa regional airport. the victims, three married couples were on their way back from a dental convention. >>> tonight, a 3-year-old little boy is recovering after nearly drowning at an indian rocks beach water park. toddler's life. the deputy was there with his family when he went from dad to a hero in a matter of secretaries. >> reporter: deputy habib hanze was at the park with his family, not realizing his training as a first responder would be vital. >> we're going on the lazy river, a lady in front of me, she had a tu yelling for help, saying there was a child under water. >> reporter: hanze knew exactly what to do and sprang into action. 3-year-old michael andrews wasn't breathing and did not have a pulse. >> his eyes were rolled back. water, his mouth, i'm sorry. i started performing cpr. just a reaction as a father, training, kicked in. it was just a crazy moment. >> reporter: turns out the training paid off. when paramedics arrived, they rushed the boy to all children's hospital.

investigators say the pilot issued a distress call b the tuscaloosa airport. >>> now to a dramatic crash landing in england. a small plane was forced to touch down along a beach during an air show. the plane hit the water hard and flipped upside down trapping the pilot but onlookers came to the rescue and turned it over. the pilot walked away with no serious injury and the plane seemed to be relatively unscathed, as well. >>> twitter may bring its football games to apple tv. the mini blogging service games, now twitter is reportedly in talks to put its app on apple tv which would let millions of that device's users watch the streams. >>> "suicide squad" held on to first place at the movies despite a huge drop-off from last week. "suicide squad" took in about $44 million. the raunchy "sausage party" surprised with 34 million and "pete's dragon" from our parent company had $21.5 million. >>> when we come back, in the middle of the night, hear why these guys have a red cooler to thank for saving their lives. >>> mama bear jumps into action after her cubs take a tumble we could brag about wh

near the tuscaloosa regional airport. the three couples onboard were on their way back from a dental convention in florida. a texas mom is behind bars this morning... police say she confessed to killing her two young children... and then hid their bodies. investigators say the woman asked her friend for help moving yester about where her daughters were.. she told him she had killed them. he drove her to a police station, where officers say she admitted she drowned the 5 and 7 year old. their bodies were found under the house next door. kita smith childrens' aunt "why would she do this why would anyone do this. it's just senseless. it's just a phone call awayi police say she has no history a huge break in the murder case... of a woman who was killed while jogging in massachussetts. investigators found d-n-a on the victim's body... since she fought back against her attacker. they also say they have identified a person of interest. the google employee was found beaten and burned about a week ago in princeton. police say they

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the ntsb says the plane was having engine problems and crashed while trying to land in tuscaloosa. they leave behind 11 children all together. >>> a local red cross volunteer is headed to the flood zone in louisiana with much of that state under water. you see the car submerged here. historic flooding has killed more out of their homes. many of them had to be rescued from their rooftops or cars. more than 20 inches of rain fell in and aren't baton rouge. more rain is expected. here's more h. >> reporter: this flooding is unlike anything the people in louisiana have ever seen. the governor says thousands of homes that have never flooded before are now under water. >> it's been difficult to get but you can throw all of the experience out whenever you break the records as we have in lea. >> reporter: in louisiana. >> reporter: 20 people had to be rescued from their homes over the weekend and their cars. >> i'm drowning. >> we're coming. we're coming. >> reporter: but when disaster strikes, the human spirit prevail. >> first instinct was to get ahold of her and pull her out. i just jum

is a did tuscaloosa in birmingham and montgomery to call in troops early hint by the end there is nobody in america not just with civil-rights but that was ending poverty so when nesting want to say but in his life he had four great enemies one was j. edgar hoover and other was to we have discovered in recent months was a guy named ray: and he blamed all of that because mccarthy was the boss. he hated grey he hated j. edgar hoover and detested the jimmy hoffa bobby thought he was corrupt those people you could argue was the good reason to do test bed number four is the tragedy and that was lbj. constitutionally they were so different one was harvard-educated its who grew up rich in massachusetts the other for mixtecs grabher pour and resented anybody to talk like bobby kennedy and had they ever united in a collision they could have gotten more extraordinary things done they both wanted civil rights to end poverty in the a.d. at cross purposes leads a huge tragedy and one of the things that made lbj more determined than ever was that kennedy called for him to come out of vietnam every tim

tuscaloosa been comfortable if not down right dry. by tomorrow morning, we are getting back to sticky, we are getting into the oppressive zone. that is going to hang in through at least saturday. sunday could be a change, too early to tell. it the ohio valley. we are getting some good model consistency, that we are going start squeezing is the moisture. high pressure is off shore, and right here in between, we are getting those winds meeting up, causing that moist air to increase, and rise, and bring the rain southern new england. this is the brand nah model consistentlg that timing for rain, beginning in the late mid massachusetts mass, and making its way east ward during the after than drive time. a scattered shower, a couple of rumbles, and locally heavy down poors, tomorrow night, there will be 1 or 2 showers, but the trend will be after sunset to wrap this up. and then thursday brings the haze, hot and humid conditions, highs will be in the nineties, feeling more like the hundred plus. you need heat indexes exceeding 100 degrees.

. >>> in alabama authorities say six people died when their small plane crashed near tuscaloosa. the plane took off from kissimmee and developed engine problems on its flight to mississippi. the faa says the plane sent a before it was supposed to land. >>> in democracy 2016 -- a big campaign day for both the republican and democratic presidential nominees. >> both of them appearing in key states today. hillary clinton will be in pennsylvania, donald trump in ohio. the republican nominee plans to outline his foreign policy plans, his main focus destroying the islamic state group and other terrorist organizations. he'll argue the country needs to work with anyone who shares trump is also expected to propose a new immigration policy where the u.s. would stop issuing visas when we can't perform proper screenings. he's also expected to propose grading a new test for admission to the country that would look at peoples' stances on issues like religious freedom. >>> hillary clinton and vice president joe biden will be in scranton, that is his hometown. and today will be his first campaig

it handed when a twin engine plane was trying to land in an emergency in tuscaloosa, alabama.forked three dentists, all with their wives. they were flying back from a dental seminar in central florida. the pilot reported mechanical problems with his piper p831 then crashed close to runaway. were there no survivors think ole miss chancellor calls it's heartbreaking loss. the doctor and his life leave behind three children, ages 10, 7, and 5. the youngest just started kindergarten. eight other kids lost parents in the same crash. deepest sympathies to them, their friends and family. >>> on this day in 1877, thomas edison suggested using the word "hello" to answer the phone. bell proposed using "ahoy" and even though that didn't catch on bell kept greeting callers of with" ahoy." before edison recommended hello the word did not have the same meaning it does today. when it came to hanging up the phone, they suggested ending conversations with "that is all. ". >> eye day, another record on the due and the s&p. never in the history of ever has the dow been that high. should news bre

plane went down short of the runway in tuscaloosa after sending a distress call because of engine problems. >>laura: a man's service animal caused a scare on a flight to las vegas. his monkey was brought on board a frontier airline. when the flight attendant walked by, they saw gizmo sticking out of a shirt. because of a monkey on the plane at all. once he explained the monkey helped him with anxiety, everybody else calmed down, too. >>russell: teenager won the international drone racing competition in austria. 40 competitors from around the world had to drive a drone through an obstacle course in an old castle. u.s. came in eighth place, by biggest problems for the rays this season. coming up, a reason why they are not doing better in standings. >>russell: and release from the red tide. aaron is on that for us this morning. >> good morning. yeah. this has sort of become an annual tradition in the tampa bay area. red tide getting here in the summertime, but it looks like we might break that tradition this year and next year, too. >>vanessa: traffic northbound at i-4, we have a crash blocki

was calling in federal troops most of your old enough to remember george wallace in tuscaloosa and bobbyennedy learned from his mistakes in birmingham and montgomery and having to call in troops early of the segregationist. with this there is nobody in america not just civil-rights but bobby kennedy in his life talking about j. edgar her hoover he was a tutor in the body can be despise roue and because mccarthy was the of boss. he detected jimmy hoffa that bodies out was corrupt. those people you could argue that the fourth person on his hate list was a great tragedy and that was lbj. one was a harvard it to -- harvard-educated rich and in massachusetts that grew up or and resented anybody who was harvard-educated and with that coalition they could've gotten more extraordinarily things done. and now across purposes is a huge tragedy. tuesday end vietnam but bobby would track things and with an anti-war speech it would seem like every day he increase the of bombing. >> one of the things the. >> tell them how many times you have read the book ; the layperson america there read the book twi

the pilot issue aid distress call before crashing south of the airport in tuscaloosa. >>> and there was a manhunt in central georgia in the deadly authorities say he should be considered armed and danger. he's wanted for the killing of tim smith as he got out of his patrol car in the town of eastman. smith would have turned 31 today. >>> law enforcement in massachusetts town of princeton say the public should remain careful and vigilant because of the murder of a young runner. >> a runner was killed a week ago last sunday and since then police have been flooded with hundreds of tips. we'll get more now from adrienne bankert. >> reporter: investigators narrow their search for killer, submitting dna samples of one person of interest into the case of a 27-year-old, vanessa marcotte. >> this could be a significant juncture in this case where they're focusing on one particular individual. >> reporter: the google account executive and avid runner found murdered and badly burned last sunday just hours after taking an afternoon jog in princeton, massachusetts. half a mile from her mother's home

that small plane reported engine trouble and tried to land at the tuscaloosa regional airport but crashed into some trees instead. the six victims all from mississippi. >> we'll be looking into the man, the machine, and the environment. to determine what happened and how we can prevent it in the future. >> blair: those couples all returning home from a dental convention in florida. to try to track down the killer of a mosque leader and his friends. you can see the mom carrying an umbrella there. he and his friend are dressed in traditional clothing. the killer comes up behind them and raises his arm with a gun in his hand. witnesses stay the gunman walked off without much urgency and no one tried to stop him. >> you have a gunman on the loose who can shoot your family at any time. >> he is my uncle. so i'm very for my uncle. he's good guy. why somebody shoot him i don't know. >> elizabeth: and concerned citizens in the area are now demanding justice, heightened security and awareness. >> blair: documents describing bill cosby's affairs and prescriptions will remain open to the public. law

he spent much of his time in his tuscaloosa, alabama office constantly listening to tape recordings ofartin luther king jr. while he examines pictures of civil rights demonstrators. those he can identify are circled and file. shelton expense why. -- explains why. >> i might add to this that it is effective. we uncover a lot of evidence that other departments might miss. brian: plan bureau of investigation -- klan bureau of investigation? mr. leamer: thank you the success of the lawsuit, it does not exist anymore. they have used the lawsuit against other large white supremacist organizations. there are not too many of them now. the book points out that robert shelton was close to george wallace, the governor of alabama. brian: what got you interested in the story? mr. leamer: in 1967, i was a graduate student at the university of oregon. i was bored to death. i took a course in magazine writing. i taught my way with a grant from the was foundation -- wells foundation, i talked my way to george wallace is playing -- wallace's plane. the reader digest george wallace. i talked my way into

he spent much of his time in his tuscaloosa, alabama office constantly listening to tape recordings ofartin luther king jr. while he examines pictures of civil rights demonstrators. those he can identify are circled and filed. he explains why. >> we have a division called the bureau of investigation, and i believe it is pretty effective. able to uncover information other departments might miss. brian: klan bureau of investigation? does it still exist? laurence: not anymore. thanks to the southern poverty law center and the success of the lawsuit, which they used against these other large racist white supremacist organizations. there are not too many of them, but it was powerful than. my book points out, robert shelton was close to george wallace, the governor of alabama, very close to him. brian: what got you interested in the story? laurence: in 1967, i was a graduate student at the university of oregon. in international affairs. i was bored to death. i took a course in magazine writing. i talked my way with a grant foundation,lace talked my way onto george wallace's playing. brian: w

he spent much of his time in his tuscaloosa, alabama office constantly listening to tape recordings of martin luther king jr. while he examines pictures of civil rights demonstrators. those he can identify are circled and filed. shelton explains why. >> we have a division called the kbi, klan bureau of investigation, and i might add to this that it is effective. we uncover a lot of evidence that other departments might miss. [end video clip] brian: klan bureau of investigation? what was it about? does it still exist? laurence: not anymore. thanks to the success of the lawsuit, it does not exist anymore. they have used the lawsuit against other large white supremacist organizations. there are not too many of them now. the book points out that robert shelton was close to george wallace, the governor of alabama. brian: what got you interested in the story? laurence: in 1967, i was a graduate student at the university of oregon. in international affairs and i was bored to death. i took a course in magazine writing. i talked my way, with a grant from the wallace foundation, i talked my way

host: robert calling in from tuscaloosa, alabama. you are a retired teacher.hould homework be eliminated in schools? caller: absolutely not. some students don't grasp the concepts of what's being taught in the class at the time. i think it is the amount of homework that should be considered. i was a math teacher. problems on a10 new skill that students can go over at home. it should be correlated among teachers. the students do the same homework every night. it should absolutely not be eliminated. host: when you were a teacher, how did you gauge how much is too much? out?id you figure that caller: i realized they had five or six other classes. i would maybe give them five problems with a skill that is good enough for them to practice with. most teachers give busywork that is wrong. busywork.achers give that is wrong. each problem should be gone over and graded. teachers give a lot of homework and then take it and throw it away. the amount should be limited in most cases. host: results of another study, this one from the american journal of family therapy on ho

robert in tuscaloosa, alabama. good morning. caller: good morning greta.'ve been watching c-span for years and here is what i believe. of african descent, never drink to drop -- drunk it drop, i believe some white people want to have a race war with the blacks and kill of the young ones because they are are going toics take over so they get the blacks out of the way. to warthese people go with that people? they kill other people of color. they are prone to killing people of color and they are trying to wipe out the young black men in this country and then take on the hispanics. host: those are roberts thoughts in alabama. we are giving all of you your opportunity to call in and let us know what you think about the report and also raising questions about this idea of that hasrance policing been the strategy of police forces across the country in the united states. there has been efforts to do away with that zero-tolerance policing, but what do you think about it giving the report -- given the report. law enforcement, want to hear from you at (202) 737-0002.

host: any more tuscaloosa, alabama. what are your thought on this? caller: hello? host: good morning. you're on the air. caller: i would like to comment about david clarke. he is a black man. but he hates himself. he is very sick. and i think that he hates black people. but he hates himself, because he is black. nd as far as the killings that have been going on, on black people by white police officers that are not held accountable, well, what you have in the police departments across the country today is you have a lot of white police officers that are good, but also you have to ow that in some police departments you have white sprem cysts that have taken off the white robe and put on the blue uniform, and i also would like to say to david clarke that he is black. he pulls off that blue uniform, he needs to look at himself. he is a black man. host: let me share this with you, tim, from "usa today." they awhat to do about the situation that integrating police departments long sold as a man aas ia is central but insufficient in baltimore about 53% of the police are